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Founded on September 27, 2000 by Irfan Khan and Rick Erickson, Agosto (also known as Agosto, Inc,) is one of the world's oldest Google Apps and cloud consulting firms, a member of the Google Apps Resource Network and a long-standing member of Google's Partner Advisory Board.

Companies use Agosto to migrate from legacy systems to the cloud, manage their IT infrastructures with managed services, provide custom cloud application development and to implement Google Apps.

Locations
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States, Agosto also has an office in Toronto, Canada.

Event Space
Agosto's office in Minneapolis at the Ford Center is available for hosted events and has a 26-person classroom or 50-person theater seating room with space for a concurrent social area for bar or catering and standing or seated networking.

Solutions
Agosto Workflow for Apps: With Google Apps, custom-designed Agosto workflows enable requests and communications via email or as someone views a project status. Tracked, timed and saved, workflows are used for audit trails, archiving and electronic storage.

Cloud Application Development: Agosto creates custom applications to help customers solve their business challenges, based on Google's platform. East to mange and scale, Agosto customer cloud apps use the same systems and infrastructure that power Google's applications.

Custom Google Sites: Each site is built with easy-to-maintain Google Sites, which is included with Google Apps. Agosto's development team and designers also build intranets for companies with thousands of employees, integrated with Google+, existing workflows, third-party applications and complex internal data structures.

Google Cloud Platform: Agosto uses Google App Engine to develop and host the custom web applications that clients need to run their businesses. With Google Compute Engine, scalability according to business need on Google's infrastructure is easy. Agosto's clients can achieve customization with Google Apps Scripts or by creating custom HTML or JavaScript.

Managed Services: Agosto provides managed servers, workstations and laptops, managed hosting and helpdesk services. Also available are backup plans and disaster recovery.

Products
Archiving and Discovery: Archiving and Discovery with Agosto involves information governance for unlimited access to Google Vault, which allows archiving and managing in one place. It contains an audit trail for transparency across the archive. New clients can utilize email and chat archiving and also attach legal hold if needed, so relevant information cannot be deleted.

Chromebooks: Three-pound or lighter Chromebooks are internet-only laptops that allow clients to get online virtually anywhere, anytime, and have all-day battery life, built-in 3G and a full-sized keyboard.

Chromebook Charging Cart: Charging carts provide extra security and storage for Chromebooks by charging and storing up to 36 Chromebooks. 36" x 36" with caster for portability, the carts can also be wheeled and stored in different locations.

Google Apps: Google Apps is a collaborative environment that includes access to Gmail for email with personalized .com addresses; Drive for storage and sharing files - every Google Apps business user gets 30GB storage shared between their Gmail and Drive; Calendar for shareable calendar and meeting scheduling, Docs for word documents, spreadsheets and presentation creation; Google Sites for designing web sites without having to code; and Vault (if chosen) for additional archiving and e-discovery.

Google Search Appliance: Using the already-developed-by-Google algorithms for machine learning, a Google Search Appliance provides current and relevant search results. Depending on the needs of the organization, it can also allow for searching people within the organization, content from social media streams, and other cloud applications, all via an interface that is like "Google-ing" online.

Single Sign-on: Single sign-on allows users to need only one password to securely access web applications from any device. Single sign-on also administrators to enable to remove access.

Clients
Agosto clients and customers include:
 * Bergstrom Automotive
 * City of Lakes Loppet
 * Corel, Inc.
 * Dunn Bros. Coffee
 * Egan Company
 * Famous Dave's
 * ICOM Productions
 * Madison-Kipp Corporation
 * Minnesota WIld
 * Regis Corporation
 * Standard Heating and Air Conditioning
 * The Minnesota Historical Society
 * The Second City
 * Superior Industries
 * WinZip (a Corel company)